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It takes a lot of money just to get a football league off the ground. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN9jvnFm79Q&t=6s   When the final analysis of the demise of the Alliance of...

April Fool? Hardly.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oneXWSR56U   It is April Fool’s Day and there is an old proverb that claims a fool and his money are soon parted. No...

San Diego has a professional football team again.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK2aZm4Zz1Q   Are you ready for some football? The Alliance of American Football is preparing for week one with...

It is somewhat astonishing that the Canadian Football League is still in existence and has outlasted three American Football Leagues, the All American Football Conference and a whole bunch of other leagues including the United States Football League and the XFL.

National Basketball Association pre-season games are being played and in a sense, the pre-season is a reminder of what the National Basketball Association of the 1950s was like. Anyone willing to throw down a basketball floor could land a game.

Could there be a battle brewing over football players who are at present unemployed? It seems that way.

Major League Baseball played some regular season games in Monterey in the late 1990s causing then Colorado Rockies owner Jerry McMorris to enthusiastically push for a franchise in the city that is not far from the Texas-Mexico border.

There are signs that America is going to get more spring time football and it will be in the form of two additional leagues. The Spring League is an active group that plays a couple of games a year. The Alliance of American Football is scheduled to begin play in 2019 and Vince McMahon’s XFL reboot will start in 2020.

Australia has hosted baseball games, football games and will host the 2018 Commonwealth Games.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IknIXhjEfoE   Go around the globe and you will see that voters are...

Usain Bolt was a Commonwealth competitor.     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX6ix1BLm-E&feature=youtu.be Suppose a sports organizing committee wanted to throw a major international sports competition but no one wanted it. The...